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If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

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Roger Ebert
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Died: 2013
Died: April 4
Film Critic
Journalist
Presenter
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Urbana
Illinois
Roger Joseph Ebert
Sense
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True
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All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.
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